Draft device.



H. B. YOUNG.

DRAFT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 30, 1910.

1 96,339, Patented Mar. 7, 1911.

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HARRY B. YOUNG, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FREDERICK I.POTTER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

DRAFT DEVICE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY B. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Draft Devices, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to draft devices, capable of use in variousrelations, but in .tended especially for use in connecting a team, atraction engine, or other pulling power to a car, wagon, implement orother object to be hauled.

The. object of the invention to provide an improved spring connectionfor such dratt devices, as more fully described hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings -l*igure 1 is a longitudinal section of thedevice. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a sliding head plate forming apart of the device.

Referring specifically to the drawings, indicates a tubular orcylindrical casing Which has a cap 6 screwed on one end and a cap 17screwed on the other end. A chain '16 extends into the casing 5 througha. hole 18 in the cap 17. and has a head plate 13 secured to the endthereof. This plate is held at a working fit in the casing, and bearsagainst the end 01 a coiled spring 15 which is located in the casing andwhich is seated at its other end against the cap 17, around a raised rim19 at the inner end of the hole 18. The end link ot the chain extendsSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 30, 1910.

Patented Mar. 7, 1911.

Serial No. 552,328.

through notches 141 in the head plate 13, the plate being set in placeby slipping it partly through the end link 16, and then turning it sothat the branches of the link enter in said notches, whereby the plateis attached to the chain and held in proper relation to the spring.Another chain 11 is secured to the eye 8 of the bolt 7 which swivels inthe hole ot the cap 6, and has an inner washer 9 and nut 10 thereon. Thechains 11 and 16 may be provided at their free ends with hooks l2 and19. and in the use of the device the chains may be wound around theobjects to be connected and the hooks engaged in any one of the links.

lVhat I claim as new is A spring draft connection comprising a casing, ahead plate slidable therein and having open notches in opposite edgesthereof, a spring confined in the casing and pressing against saidplate. and a chain into the end link of which said plate is inserted,with the branches of the link extending through said notches, wherebythe chain and plate can be connected or disconnected by slipping theplate into or out ot the link.

In testimony whereof. I do afiix my signa ture in the presence of twowitnesses, at Cleveland, in the county of Cuvahoga and State of Ohio,this 28th day ot March, 1910.

HARRY B. YOUNG. Vitnesscs Mounon E. MILLER, Srnmux J. ROCKWELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing" the Commissioner of lat ents, Washington, I). C.

